The Belgian Interior Minister Joëlle Milquet (Francophone Christian democrat) has announced that border checks on minors will be improved to prevent Belgian youngsters from going to Syria to join the civil war there.
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The amendment would see background checks — the core of President Barack Obama’s gun control push — expanded to include all sales at gun shows and on the Internet
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For the second consecutive year, prospective gun buyers joined Black Friday shoppers in record numbers as firearms dealers swamped the FBI with required buyer background check requests.
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Motorcyclists from Belgium and the Netherlands assembled at the Atomium at the Heizel site in western Brussels to voice their protests against European plans to introduce obligatory technical checks for motorbikes.
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The San Diego beautician who claims she had a naked romp with Prince Harry in Las Vegas is now locked in the least-palatial place possible — a jail cell.
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The Australian Childhood Foundation has called for broader screening that will consider the home life of young children in a bid to avoid behavioural problems sparked by domestic conflict being labelled mental illness.
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The police will no longer set up systematic traffic controls to catch cyclists without lights or motorists who hold their mobile phones while driving, Trouw reports on Friday. The change in approach stems from police-commissioned research which shows there is no evidence cycling with lights or hands-free phoning is safer, the paper says.
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The increasing deployment of iris scanners and biometric passports at worldwide airports, hotels and business headquarters, designed to catch terrorists and criminals, are playing havoc with operations that require CIA spies to travel under false identities.
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European safety authorities are set to order airlines to carry out checks on almost a third of the current Airbus A380 fleet after the discovery of wing cracks on the world’s largest jetliner, aviation sources said on Friday.
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